The Billion Dollar Bribe: How Washington's Deals Are Killing Offshore Wind The Trump administration has struck a $1.
22 billion deal with German energy giant RWE, paying the company to abandon its offshore wind leases in the United States.
This agreement is part of a broader pattern of using taxpayer money to bribe companies into dropping their clean energy ambitions. RWE secured its leases as recently as 2022, paying $1.